Pau,

You have an uncanny ability to talk bullsh!t about Aboriginal policy. In the thirties, if anything, authorities were very concerned about the opposite of 'breeding out' - that too much fraternisation and casual liaisons could (and probably did) create more problems with unmarried mothers, neglected children, child mortality, etc.

So in most States, new Aborigines' Acts specified that white men were to be kept from 'consorting' with Aboriginal women, with strict penalties. Those laws were still on the books here in SA until about 1962. Of course, like most unattractive social rules, they were ignored: so many kids - in the absence of any single mothers' financial benefits - had to be put into care. Hence the so-called 'Stolen Generation'. [Maybe, one day, there'll be a class action launched by some major law firm on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of SGs; but none seem to be forthcoming; only for poor Bruce Trevorrow]. Amazingly, the years that such benefits were brought in, the SG seemed to have come to an end. Hmm, I wonder if there was some sort of connection between the two seemingly unrelated issues.

So no, you're way-off track. If anything, as soon as Aboriginal people had the facility to move to the towns and cities, after the War, they enthusiastically liaised and consorted and thoroughly enjoyed themselves, even inter-marrying (as you and I have done). Wow, little did they (and our spouses) know, they were breeding themselves out.

Joe

Paul1405,
you'd be better off in 1960's south Africa with your mentality !

Joe as an apologists you do a good job, you are well versed concerning the 5% of Aboriginals living in South Australia, but your knowledge of the other 95% elsewhere is questionable.

O. A. Neville, Chief Protector in Western Australia from 1915 to 1940. (He said) He could do nothing for Aborigines, who were dying out, but he could absorb the "half-castes":

The native must be helped in spite of himself! Even if a measure of discipline is necessary it must be applied, but it can be applied in such a way as to appear to be gentle persuasion ... the end in (my) view will justify the means employed.

Neville had a "two-point" plan:

First, the "full-bloods" would die out through interbreeding.

Second, take "half-castes" away from their mothers; then, control marriages among "half-castes" and so encourage intermarriage with the white community. According to Neville; "(The) young half-blood maiden is a pleasant, placid, complacent person as a rule, while the quadroon [one-quarter Aboriginal] is often strikingly attractive, with her oftimes auburn hair, rosy freckled colouring, and good figure ..." These were the sort of people who should be elevated "to our own plane". In this way, it would be possible to "eventually forget that there were EVER ANY ABORIGINIES IN AUSTRALIA". Here, in unmistakable language and intent, was ideology justifying why biology (genocide) should solve this "social problem".

Neville on to establish Sister Kate's Orphanage in 1933, on the guiding principle that the good Sister took in those whose "lightness of colour" could lead them to assimilation and intermarriage.

Neville's legacy - his mishmash of nineteenth-century race theory, twentieth-century eugenics, his own brand of assimilationism, and illogic - is to be found in the quite astonishing Natives
(Citizenship Rights) Act 1944 (WA).

Indy, you give yourself up! Said you were a reffo but not a Pom, never saying from whence you came. I wouldn't admit I came from South Africa, if I was a white honky, and a functionary of the apartheid regime myself. And to think us taxpayer have to keep you.

The West Australian 14 Feb 2020 PETER LAW - STATE POLITICAL EDITOR

Buurabalayji Thalanyji Aboriginal Corporation boss Matthew Slack with Bill Shorten with Mark McGowan.
Parliament has been told the “tyrannical” boss of one of WA’s biggest indigenous corporations fleeced the organisation of millions of dollars.
In an explosive speech to the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Nationals MP Vince Catania described Buurabalayji Thalanyji Aboriginal Corporation boss Matthew Slack as a “fraudulent” chief executive.
Mr Slack has been photoState graphed with Mark McGowan and former Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten but there is no suggestion they are implicated in any way.
The “tyrannical” chief executive of one of WA’s largest Aboriginal corporations “falsified” his CV, then “allegedly fleeced” the organisation of millions of dollars, State Parliament has been told.
In an explosive speech to the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Nationals politician Vince Catania, described Buurabalayji Thalanyji Aboriginal Corporation boss Matthew Slack as a “fraudulent CEO”.
The North West Central MP used parliamentary privilege to say the corporation’s members had suffered oppression “at the hands of the company’s tyrannical chief executive officer Matthew Slack, who is being propped up by a board of puppet directors and protected by high-powered Perth lawyer Martin Bennett”.
He also read a statement signed by BTAC members that described Mr Slack as a “compulsive liar” who claimed to be indigenous to get his $250,000 job “but there were serious doubts about this”.
BTAC, which is responsible for managing the economic interests and native title payments made to the Thalanyji people of Onslow in the Pilbara, was placed under special administration by the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations last month.
Mr Catania told Parliament that the special administrator’s preliminary findings, released two weeks ago, “only just scratch the surface of what I classify as the extreme squandering of indigenous corporation money”.
He said the special administrator had released information from the period July 2017 to December last year that showed BTAC had spent $3.3 million of members’ money on legal fees, $1 million on flights and another $1.2 million on accommodation and meals.

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“We understand that that does not cover the frequent bookings of the presidential suite at the Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney by the CEO, Matthew Slack,” he said.
“It also shows a cost of $550,000 in security guards and systems for the CEO, Matthew Slack, who the administrator understands at one time had three security guards on active duty in his office.
“That is what is being audited. That is what the administrator has shown happened over two years. That calculation does not include the credit card use.
“There were a number of personal expenses claimed including iPads, lingerie, boxes at the football, restaurants, valet parking and charges that I have been told also include strip clubs, based on the description on the statement.
“Money was also spent on expensive accommodation — as I said, the Shangri-La — and Crown hotels. Most of this credit card use occurred over that time. I have been told that the average spend has been between $15,000 and $20,000 each month. Remember, this CEO has a base salary of $250,000. Members can add to that the $15,000 or $20,000 of what has been recorded.”